Arubans in the Netherlands

Arubans in the Netherlands
Arubanen in Nederland
Total population
23,800 (2013)
Languages
Dutch, Papiamento
Religion
Christianity

Arubans in the Netherlands (Dutch: Arubanen in Nederland) are migrants from Aruba to the Netherlands and their descendants. Aruba was part of the former Netherlands Antilles until 1986 when the country seceded remaining a constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands. As of 2014, figures from Statistics Netherlands showed 142,953 people of Dutch Antillean origin in the Netherlands, of which 23,800 are Aruban. Rotterdam has the largest Aruban community with about 4,000 people of Aruban descent. Large Aruban community can also be found in Amsterdam, Almere and The Hague.

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